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ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading into geographic areas due to climate change. Most mosquito control methods use lures based on odors from human hosts or gravid traps that attract only f…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project aimed to find out whether chia seeds deserve being called a “super food”. First, we examined if the human digestive system was able to extract from the chia seeds the most benef…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a grade IV astrocytoma, has an elevated level of hTERT. Ad-TERT, a promising oncolytic adenovirus type 5 variant where E1A regulating components have been repl…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
We study the distortion of an optimal embedding of a perfect binary tree into a Euclidean space with a fixed number of dimensions. The distortion is a characteristic of the embedding, descri…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
It is a fundamental problem to find a good criterion to decide whether a system of polynomial equations has a solution. Hilbert Zero Point Theorem says that for two polynomials f(x,y) and g(…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
With thousands of people dying daily in car accidents, and almost half occurring at night, the lack of roadway visibility needs to be addressed. Strontium aluminate is a nontoxic compound th…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that can be harnessed using technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and solar architecture. These technolo…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The stability of Bachall-Wolf cusps of dark matter (DM) particles orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary system was studied as the SMBHs lost energy through gravitational radiation…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
One of the central problems in theoretical physics is understanding dark energy, an enigmatic phenomenon that is hypothesized to be driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. Calcul…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
The purpose of this project was to determine if an anti-cancer agent can be released from composites of hollow gold nanoparticles (HGNs) and liposomes using normal body temperature to avoid…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
As the world’s dependence on the depleting sources of fossil fuels increase, scientists are beginning to look into algae as viable alternative energy sources. Algae can produce the necessary…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
Second-generation biofuels, which involve the conversion of waste products such as agricultural and paper waste into ethanol-based sources, present a promising environmentally-friendly alter…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project includes the utilization of electro pulsing to optimize the production of ceramic filters, specifically Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Polycrystalline Zirconia (3Y-TZP). Due to th…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Solar energy can be utilized through photovoltaic cells to simultaneously meet the global demand for energy and decrease the production of greenhouse gases. However, their low efficiency rat…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Fossil fuels are currently used in the automobile industry. Many problems have occurred because of the harmful emission of greenhouse gases and alternatives such as hydrogen fuel can help re…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Typical graphene is grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) which requires high temperatures (1,100-1,600 °C) and complicated transfer processes that frequently result in the loss and…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) possess significant potential in water transport applications, demonstrating greater water flux over that of carbon nanotubes and contemporary reverse osmosis…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Vaccines are the one of greatest health innovations in human history, saving an estimated two million lives annually. They function by exposing the body to an antigen mimicking a pathogen an…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, it is estimated that about 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Signal Peptide Peptidase (SPP) is a membrane protein that is lo…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
My school, Cascades Academy, has a sister school in Peru named Casa Chapi. The students at this school struggle with anemia, which is not surprising considering that the World Health Organiz…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
To maintain the nuclear integrity of somatic cells that provide the beneficial traits for cloning, tissue culture techniques are used to culture cells in vitro using a growth medium suppleme…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
The purpose was to develop a system that can harness vibrational energy from a bladeless wind turbine that is small enough to implement in a residential area. The hypothesis was if a system…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
One of the most pressing issues in modern computing is computational speed. In supercomputers, hundreds of thousands of processors, or nodes, are connected in configurations called topologie…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Mersenne Primes are prime numbers of the form 2^p-1 where p is prime. These numbers have been studied for over 2,000 years and continue to mesmerize mathematicians today with a number of uns…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Owing to increasing demands for sustainable and renewable energy an exploration of lighttoenergy converters has become an area of great interest for many scientists and engineers. Having a…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Third Award
This work deals with an open question in math with direct implications to spectral theory and to mathematical physics. A measure describes the distribution of mass over a general set. Given…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Musculoskeletal disorders include diverse complications but all suffer from the physiological orthopedic domino effect, namely bone mineral density (BMD) alterations. For instance, increased…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aminoglycosides are antibiotics that are often used to treat patients suffering from severe bacterial infections yet they induce irreversible hearing loss. The mechanisms by which these drug…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the most prominent form of Lung Cancer and kills at least 800,000 people each year. Early diagnosis of NSCLC yields higher survival rates among patients…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The use of sulfur in a cathode for lithium batteries has garnered increasing attention in recent years for next-generation energy storage because of its high energy density and low cost. A r…